QUOTES by Langston Hughes
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Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!
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Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!
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As much as they loved Negroes, Neroes didn't seem to love Michael and Anne.
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2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8. But what would happen If the last 4 was late? And how would it be If one 2 was me? Or if the first 4 was you Divided by 2?
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Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you.
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As I learn from you, I guess you learn From me --- although You're older --- and white And somewhat more free.
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God in his infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise- So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise.
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Color Wear it Like a banner For the proud-- Not like a shroud. Wear it Like a song Soaring high-- Not moan or cry.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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They rung my bell to ask me. Could I recommend a maid. I said, yes, your momma.
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Impasse I could tell you If I wanted to, What makes me What I am. But I don't Really want to – And you don't Give a damn.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind— And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find.
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Justice That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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American Heartbreak I am the American heartbreak-- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe-- The great mistake That Jamestown made Long ago.
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Oppression Now dreams Are not available To the dreamers, Nor songs To the singers. In some lands Dark night And cold steel Prevail-- But the dream Will come back, And the song Break Its jail.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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Negroes Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day They change their minds! Wind In the cotton fields, Gentle breeze: Beware the hour It uproots trees!
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two — and see what worms are eating at the rind.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.
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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.
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The Dream Keeper Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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